| has gloss | eng: Robert Alter is a professor of Hebrew language and Comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967. Biography Robert Alter earned his bachelors degree in English (Columbia University, 1957), and his masters (1958) and doctorate degrees (1962) from Harvard University in comparative literature. He started his career as a writer at Commentary Magazine, where he was for many years a contributing editor. Alter has written seventeen books, and is noted most recently for his translations of sections of the Bible. |